Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Mary L. Trump

Jul 2020 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Mary L. Trump

About this audiobook

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who occupied the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Ratings and reviews

After reading these comments. 😳 The majority of you "Trump Haters" seem to be a very narrow minded, angry & hurtful bunch! Take a deep breath & relax... Sheesh Ever consider that the majority of "Trump Supporters" consist of "Independent's" & "Classical Liberals" & simply don't look at politics the way "Modern Liberals" do? Vote for Policies, NOT the person. Be bipartisan and sceptical when obtaining your info, and don't trust the media! Honestly compare Trump vs Biden, the answer's OBVIOUS!

She told it like it is, angry or not, you Trump followers are the sad, power, racist, cold etc of loving how he is, a nasty cold, reckless, user. Stay with it, a disaster will shut all or most of u down in some holy ways and reasons. Just live on while u r awake, not human from our CREATOR OFVZLK, U HAVE NO RIGHTS OVER ANOTHER, people are tired of your created mentality of better than another human, u created the atmosohere,many yrs back, as it continues, but maybe this time Creator is Sickof.

hi, I ordered this book about DJ Trump. I'm awaiting the delivery after hearing the prologue by Mary L Trump. I'm astounded that everything she said On that subject. I, myself have been talking to people and saying " Why don' t people see the same thing as me, and ,any of my friends . You' re very good to illuminate us and ascertain that what you' re saying is true. Thank you Mary L Trump for your insight; I'm sure yours will be the best book in and of this very dangerous president (sic")

About the author

Mary L. Trump holds a PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology. She lives with her daughter in New York.